Clinically Available Assessment Measures for Lingual and Labial Somatosensation in Healthy Adults: Normative Data and Test Reliability.

Conclusion: Two-point discrimination and Von Frey hair monofilament assessment for both detection- and discrimination-threshold estimates have high test-retest reliability in a healthy young population. These testing measures could be a way to easily complete objective somatosensory testing of the orofacial region in a clinical context. PMID: 28632881 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology)

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